The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the short list for this year’s Hall of Fame and Prometheus Award nominees. Voting for both the Hall of Fame and Best Novel will take place in July. The award will be presented at Anticipation.

Best Book

Matter, by Iain Banks

Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

The January Dancer, by Michael Flynn

Saturn’s Children, by Charles Stross

Opening Atlantis, by Harry Turtledove

Half a Crown, by Jo Walton

Hall of Fame

Falling Free, a novel by Lois McMaster Bujold (1988);

Courtship Rite, a novel by Donald M. Kingsbury (1982);

“As Easy as A.B.C.,” a short story by Rudyard Kipling (1912);

The Lord of the Rings, a three-volume novel by J. R. R. Tolkien (1955);

The Once and Future King, including The Book of Merlyn, a novel by T. H. White (1977)